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Last edited by Just Duke; 11-15-2016 at 09:44 PM.
How could you have the smell of WW in your nose with that space mask? I don't even smell it with my indoor casting bench. I think it's to much of that "new car smell" you have around there...
Nice set up duke. I got my #3 Rowell from Advanced Car Movers as well. I am looking at your pictures and I am realizing I need a bigger pot, more ingot molds, and a bigger ladle.
I guess I am suffering from Ladle envy.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final!
Will kill for food!
Thanks LFB's. Yes the pot hold 200 lbs of lead unfortunately. I wish I had a 300 to 400 pounder with the bulk of lead I need to process. The guys here in the Black Powder Section tell me I need to make a certain alloy and duplicable so I figure just a larger pot might work. 20-1 and or 30-1.
This setup should work fine for my 45-70, 500 S&W's and 45 Long/ACP bullets.
I love the smell of NAP..... errr ahh... Lead wheel weights smelting in the Morning! It smells like VICTORY! Borrowed a quote from a movie.
I am getting to the point now that I am associating the smell with something positive. Sorta like the Hoppes #9 smell, or the smell from a highly active range. I am still going to get me a better respirator before the next go around though.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final!
Will kill for food!
I'm just jealous Duke.
Everything around here is old, warn, stained, in serious need of repair or rebuilding with myself included sometimes..
......just thinking about your proposed Jennifer Tilly mould.......
....yer definately gonna need a bigger ladle Duke!!!.....
Safe casting
Limey
.......never mind Quigley's gun....I just wish I had his eyesight!!!!
I can make a ladle to match the pot I made for you and will send it with the stand. Hope ya got big arms.LOL.
** Please bear with me for a day or two if I dont reply quickly.**
Mike B.
Gun Control= Being able to hit your target.
I never cease to be amazed on how creative people are on these boards. Sure, Duke looks like something out of the new "L.L. Bean for Casters" catalog, but man, everything he does is first rate.
Me, I'm still waiting for the first JT mold production photos
Safety
$60 bucks worth the El Cheapo welding gear.
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Last edited by Just Duke; 06-18-2012 at 09:46 PM.
Nawh, you should have gone with this one:
http://www.advancecarmover.com/detai...well_ladle_#10
That thing looks scary... You really should consider putting some 2x4s edgewise around the edges with glue and a lot of wood screws for support.
I'm not a big fan of saw horses for anything heavy. I'll stack some cinder blocks for legs instead. Assuming that you want a table top at around 30 inches or so in height, it takes 8 cinder blocks on each side to make end pedestals / legs. If it still bows in the middle with all your weight, add a single stack of 4 blocks in the middle. At Home Depot and Lowes, cinder blocks are usually only around $1.25 each. If you want to get fancy and set yourself something up in the backyard of a more permanent basis, pour a couple of concrete pads with rebar sticking up where the cinder block legs are supposed to be and when you put the blocks over the rebar, fill them with more rebar and concrete.
Anything worth engineering is worth OVER-engineering...
A couple of years ago, I was working with some rather nasty chemicals in an enclosed area and just blowing a fan would not have been acceptable from a safety standpoint. What I created was a forced fresh air supply. I bought one of the Israeli surplus gas masks, removed the filter, and adapted it to a hose which went around to my back and then went into a garden hose that I used for the primary air supply from well outside the building. The garden hose was attached to a disassembled shop vac exhaust port and the shop vac head was not attached to the body and it did not have the filter on it, so I was getting clean air instead of air that had been collecting the smell of the shop vac stuff. Since it is a forced air supply, you do not have to have the mask all that tight on your head -- unlike what you need if you are using filters. Another advantage is that if you are working in a hot area, you can have the shop vac located in an air conditioned area and it will help you feel quite a bit cooler.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |